I was wondering that very thing about, oh, 17 hours ago. There's an offhanded reference to it in an episode of James May's 20th Century (he uses "the cover of Jeff Wayne's excellent Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" as an example of an electrical insulator), and I was a bit baffled by the concept - The War of the Worlds as a rock opera?! - but hey, Captain Slow said it was good, so I tracked it down.

Within not a very long time at all, I knew how Kate spent part of the missing S3-S4 period. (How she ended up associated with the BBC Etereophonic Orchestra in the first place has, as these things happen, nothing to do with Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, but... )

--G.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JLqsbK5V0

It is indeed awesome.

--G.
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Thunderchild is a particular favorite of mine, I must admit.

-- Bob
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

You can always listen to our copy if you and your wife want to come around some time.

-- Bob
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

She's the Artilleryman and Parson Nathaniel's wife!

Actually she isn't; in 2408 she was still at the AEGIS Academy and pretending to be a colonist. (One wonders why she didn't simply pretend to be a Red Martian. Nobody's afraid of them. On the other hand, then everyone would've expected her to be a nudist. And there again, maybe there aren't any telepathic Barsoomians. Barsoomites?)

--G.
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Huh. Did I miss earlier material indicating that the DC and Burroughs Martians share Planet Four, or is this new revelation?

Either way it leads me to wonder if the DC Martians occupy the requisite "Green Martian" position for the Barsoomians...

-- Bob
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It's come up before, but only in by-the-way mentions (like this one, come to that), and what I'm about to say is probably different in some particulars from earlier versions anyway:

There are several distinct sapient Martian species, which came as quite a surprise to the first Earthpeople to arrive there with an eye toward terraforming the place and settling in. They went expecting to have to deal with, if anything, the remnants of the declining civilization behind the unsuccessful invasion of 1904. Instead they found at least four (possibly five) separate sentient races, only one of which looked convincingly human, and one guy from Virginia who claimed that a) he was immortal and b) they were trespassing. Is it any wonder there was a brief and very confusing war?

>Either way it leads me to wonder if the DC Martians occupy the
>requisite "Green Martian" position for the Barsoomians...

The four-armed guys are about, although to avoid confusion with the DC Martians (who are more properly known as Malacandri) they're usually called Tharks.

--G.
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This is, if you will pardon the potential pun, conceivable.

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Would the uncertainty be about whether the Gnards and Paeecs from Mars Attacks! are separate species or not?

--The Evil Midnight Lurker what Lurks at Midnight
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Nope; it's generally accepted that the Fungus Heads (as the Tharks called them) were extrasolar invaders and not native to Mars in the first place. The uncertainty mainly stems from the fact that no one quite knows whether the White Martians (of Red Martian antiquity, not evil Malacandri) are really extinct, and if they're not, are they really a separate species from the Reds? Some scholars say yes, some say no.

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I suppose we should count ourselves lucky that there are no Heinlein-style Martians -- either Red Planet or Stranger In A Strange Land style...

-- Bob
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Clearly, Marvin is a "Green Mandcalan" who's gone over to the white, even if he did keep his green skin color....

Now I'm imagining something slightly different...

"Greetings, Invader Zim. It seems you have uncovered my plans. I shall have to disintegrate you now."
"You?!"
"Who is it, Zim?"
"The Banished One. He tried to overthrow the Tallest...but we thought him dead."
"Not so. Now, prepare to die at the hands of Invader Marvin!"

Peter Eng
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